Isolation of victim

“I was in the ER for a day and a half. Like, I was literally...because they don't open a closed, ICU unit unless they have five patients waiting because it's just not financially...”

“"I had one night nurse that was really scary... I was kinda calling out because I time was ticking.”

“"if you're not that kind of a family member, you're going to be barred from the hospital.”

“"And they kept saying, you're leaving AMA against medical advice. And I said, no. I'm not leaving AMA because I have a lot of doctors advising me if I don't leave, I'm gonna die. I'm leaving home hospice, not AMA. And we went back and forth. The police were called. They kinda had like, for hours. I think we were there about six or seven hours going back and forth negotiating this.”

“"there was a female doctor that tried to kind of gaslight me into staying. You know, they try to scare you into staying and dealing with their protocol, and, and I can't be gaslit. Right? Like, so she was she was saying to me, she said, you know, he can't there's no way to to manage your oxygen outside of a hospital. He can't do it. And, my husband kinda interjected and she said, no, I need to talk to her. She she said and I looked at my husband and I said, do you have everything you need to manage my oxygen at home? And he said, I do. And I told her, I said, I trust my husband. And if I die at his hands, it's better than dying at your hands. And, and we're leaving.”

“"And they had intravenously giving me giving me so much diuretics that I could not control my bowels or my bladder. I could not control myself, and they did it intentionally because no food well, no nutrition. You know, you're you're going on what is that? Thirteen days no nutrition, so I'm weak as hell. First seven days, I didn't even have water. No personal care. No mouth care. The whole time I was there, I had thrush. I had all these awful things going on.”

“"Well, we waited and waited in the waiting room, and they never came to get us.”

“"Yes. He did. Both cheeks. ... And I stayed on him about that.”

“"I said, okay. Everybody's little merry Christmas is over with because our Christmas wasn't that good. I said, I want phone Carrie in here tomorrow.”

“"We noticed in the last week, they were, no. Well, they weren't coming in quite as often. And we noticed that, like, the last couple of days, they finally turned him over on his back and left him. So we felt like then they thought this is it, or this is when they were gonna make it it.”

“"And I will always believe that, the thirty days that he spent on the ventilator and as drugged as he was is what actually killed him and it wasn't the covid that killed him.”

“"at one point before he was, on a ventilator, he asked me to look into whether he could go to a different hospital because he was so unhappy there. And they told me they wouldn't they said they wouldn't release him, and they said no other hospital would accept him in the condition that he was in. So there was no way that he could go to another hospital.”

“"And I found out, nurses told me that, the only time any doctors ever saw the patients was during those rounds in the morning. And there would be several doctors who went on rounds at the same time, and they literally spent a minute, maybe two minutes in each patient's room. Other than that, everything was done by nurses.”

“"And turned out it was like an inflatable raft that you put in your swimming pool to play with, and that's what they put under the patients. And he was developing, pressure sores. ... I could not believe the array of drugs, intravenous drugs that they had. ... how do you expect a patient to fight an illness if you have put them in a coma and they're completely unable to ... improve his own condition in any way.”

“"you know, the nurses being very inattentive [...] he was really unhappy. And he asked me to ask, that that nurse not, see him. [...] But those five days that he was in ICU without being on a ventilator, his condition still did not improve. [...] I do have to say he, he had type two diabetes, and he was overweight. [...] So my daughter ran to get me, and by the time she did she was staying with me at my house just so I wasn't alone. [...] And, consequently, he was on a ventilator for thirty days. [...] But when they put you on a ventilator, they put you in a coma, like, medically induced coma. And they also paralyze you, which was just shocking and and frightening to me to hear that. And no one was explaining to me what that what this all meant.”

“"Of course, during this time, because it was COVID and everything was kind of crazy at the hospital. They didn't allow any visitors. They didn't allow me in. Even though I had COVID too and recovered, and tested negative, and I begged them and said, I I I I'll sign a release so that I don't hold you responsible if I get sick again. Just please let me see my husband. Not only did they not let me see my husband, but their policy was that you couldn't even come inside the hospital.”

“"It says it's due to COVID, pneumonia, and, acute I'm sorry. Respiratory syndrome? Yeah.”

“"And I think they were planning to do that the next day. And and, so the next day, I spoke to the nurse. She said they were gonna do that, and then I didn't hear anything back.”

“"He had, signed a a do not resuscitate order, which at that point would, you know, have been completely useless to try to resuscitate him. I'm very grateful that I got to spend about an hour or so, hour and a half maybe at the most, with him. And I was with him holding his hand, talking to him when he passed. And, I could not shake this horrible guilt feeling that I brought him there. You know, I picked that hospital. Maybe a different hospital would have been better at at one point before he was, on a ventilator, he asked me to look into whether he could go to a different hospital because he was so unhappy there. And, they told me they wouldn't they said they wouldn't release him, and they said no other hospital would accept him in the condition that he was in. So there was no way that he could go to another hospital.”

“"And the hospital said, no. So and also as it turned out, even though our GP was, had privileges at that hospital, she was not allowed to see him either. Only the infectious disease doctor, was allowed to see him.”

“"They said they were trying to turn him. I don't know if I believed that. And they stopped turning him because every time they turned him on his stomach, they said his oxygen level dropped so much that they had to put him back on his back.”

“"But if this was as as, dangerous an illness as they say it was, it just seemed to me like the doctors should have been more involved. They, you know, they should have been more hands on. There's so many things I could mention. I mean, like, one of the things my brother told me is, you know, ask them if they can put him on a a mattress that, that rotates a little so that he doesn't get bed sores.”

“"And their loved ones were just being rushed onto ventilators. And, you know, once you've got a a whole intensive care unit and and everyone in there is a in a coma and on a ventilator, You know, I know it sounds cynical, but, that's probably the easiest, care that that that they have to give.”

“"And, and he refused to come down and see me and said he would call me later, and and he did call me later. And I found out, nurses told me that, the only time any doctors ever saw the patients was during those rounds in the morning. And there would be several doctors who went on rounds at the same time, and they literally spent a minute, maybe two minutes in each patient's room.”